Designed to provide advanced graphics functions for this new gaming platform, the new system LSI chips with eDRAM will be manufactured using advanced technologies on NEC Yamagata's 300-millimeter (mm) production lines.
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Embedded DRAM technology integrates DRAM on the same chip with logic circuits, and is viewed as an optimal solution for three-dimensional (3D) graphics acceleration systems and other applications that need to process high bandwidth data using low power.

Immersion Technology, la société qui détient les droits de la vibration des contrôleurs de jeu, et qui l'a notamment fait savoir à Sony devant le juge, vient de sortir sa nouvelle génération de technologie de vibration pour les consoles de jeux. Notez que si Microsoft a accepté de payer Immersion pour faire vibrer ses manettes, Sony semble l'avoir abandonné pour les manettes de la PS3, qui offriront plutôt un système de capteur de mouvement dans l'espace, sans vibreur.
 
Chez Immersion, on promet que la technologie TouchSense de seconde génération apportera un paquet de nouvelles possibilités. Les développeurs de jeux pourront mieux contrôler les vibrations des manettes de jeu, en créant des vibrations plus ciblées, dans une région de la manette, avec un plus grand nombre d'effets possibles.
 
Les actuelles consoles Xbox et Xbox 360 utilisent la technologie de vibration de première génération d'Immersion, tout comme quelques périphériques de contrôle pour PC. Par exemple, Logitech, qui fait dans le contrôleur pour PC, utilise cette technologie sous licence. Une licence qui regroupe aussi bien les moyens physiques pour faire vibrer le contrôleur, que le SDK utilisé par les développeurs pour exploiter le système de vibration.
 
Les nouveaux moteurs physiques de vibration de Immersion permettent à la fois de cibler les vibrations sur une partie de la manette uniquement, ils possèdent aussi une plus large fourchette de fréquences de rotation, ce qui autorisera la simulation d'un plus grand nombre d'effets, du sabre laser au recul d'une arme automatique. Cette nouvelle génération du TouchSense utilise un servomoteur en moins, ce qui permettra d'économiser de l'énergie pour les manettes sans fil.
 
Microsoft utilise le SDK d'Immersion dans DirectX, utilisé aussi par la Xbox, mais aucune information n'a filtré sur l'éventuelle utilisation de ce TouchSense seconde génération dans ses produits.

Q : Mr. Miyamoto, aren't you facing any issues when you are making software due to the fact that Wii is not HD-ready or haven't you felt the Wii does not have high enough spec? How about you, Mr. Takeda?
 
Miyamoto : I have made demo software for E3 and I have been making Wii titles now, but I have never felt that Wii needs more processing power. Actually, whatever spec numbers you may be talking about, there are always some technological limit. If anyone makes a game for HD, the hardware machine power must become more than quadrupled just to make it HD applicable. A similar thing can be said about the memory size. When developers are told that they can use as much memory size as they want, someone use them indiscriminately without thinking how it will affect other development activities, and it is becoming difficult for game directors to control the whole game development process. Such uncoordinated activities by each developer make the hardware work less efficiently and unnecessary development efforts must be taken for these activities. What we are trying to do is to create brand new freestyle entertainment that can be enjoyed by all the family members as well as by a single player. In making such entertainment, I have never felt stress about the power of Wii. Honestly, I have not been able to use 100% of GameCube's power yet, so I am very happy with Wii's far superior functionality.
 
Takeda : I don't think we have any problem about the hardware. It's just the matter of how you use the available technologies. We could use technologies to effectively process HD. In fact, Wii is using 90nano, SA and other state of the art technologies as well as DRAM integrated technology that others are also doing. Only the difference is, we are using these technologies differently from the others. Each company has its own idea on how they should use the technologies, and we believe our ways are the most desirable one for software creators.
 
Iwata : I am still a developer at heart, so allow me to add my comment. I think it is just a matter of the balance. As I said earlier, the notion to be able to make more beautiful graphics is tempting. High-resolution sounds tempting too. I myself can tell the resulted difference in these areas even if many others can't, and I don't say I don't like technologies. I am one of the engineers so I am excited with new functionality. However, if I only listen to the voices of my engineer spirit, the resulted machine will be bigger in size, will take a longer time to start playing after turning on the switch and must be pretty difficult to employ such unique functions as WiiConnect24. So, we made the decision by asking ourselves, "which would let us make more attractive proposals to the consumers?" and "which will be the more balanced way to use the technologies?" We did not include some functions but it is not because we couldn't do so. It was just that we eliminated them to make Wii a better proposal. Of course, we have had very heated discussions. Now that we had decided to take this approach, after attending E3 and having listened to the feedback from so many people, we are convinced that the decision we made was the right one. Of course, 5 years from today or 10 years from today, we will need to review and determine the new balance in order to come up with our new proposals in terms of the actual needs of the customers and many other factors including affordable price. I am not saying that Nintendo will never launch HD-ready hardware. Rather, it can happen. However, when we seriously look into the current penetration ratio of HD TV, the need to take a long time to start software applications after turning on the power, the big console body, heat, power consumption, etc., etc., we had to make a more well-balanced machine. So, we have no regret about Wii in terms of its well-balanced nature.

Interview with both MP3’s director and producer.
The following is an excerpt of the interview:”…because of this Phazon corruption, we’re giving the player the ability to go into that mode (hyper mode as seen in Super Metroid) at any time and become very powerful, which opens up a subset of abilities that Samus will have…while your extremely powerful for a period of time, you also have the possibility of dying…(game is more cinematic then the last two) that was very much a conscious thing that we’re doing because the system’s more powerful (than the Gamecube).
It allows us to create larger environments (then the last two)…(you’ll see farther ‘distances’ visually)…(bounty hunters are in the game and are important to the story)…(Wii is) obviously a more powerful machine (than Gamecube)…visually we’ve got bloom lighting (also improved animations)…(Corruption is a launch title)…(Samus can remotely command her ship)  
So the ship can come in and do bombing runs or it can come in and lift really huge objects for you, or you can use it to traverse areas as a platform…(Command, Combat, Scan, X-ray visors are in the game)…(we’ll see more metroids along with seeing Chozo)…(no multiplayer, but will use WiiConnect24)…(MP3 is the last game in the Prime trilogy) we will continue expanding the (Metroid) franchise…(you can use nunchuk as a grapple beam by flicking).

Nintendo Power lists the Top 25 Wii games as seen below:
 
25. Medal of Honor: Airbone - There are Wii-controlled-bomb-dismantling sequences
24. Disaster: Day of Crisis
23. Metal Slug Anthology - You might toss grenades with Wii-mote thrown motion
22. Elebits
21. Call of Duty
20. Harvest Moon
19. Madden NFL 07 - Made for the other 143 million football fans that don’t play Madden
18. Project H.A.M.M.E.R
17. Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam
16. Super Monkey Ball: BB - There will be more then enough mini-games
15. Wii Sports
14. Trauma Center: SO - cutting, suturing, bandaging, injecting with Wii-mote
13. Red Steel
12. Excite Truck
11. Dragon Quest: TMQTM
10. Fire Emblem - sequel to Path of Radience, same land, thief Sothe is in the game
09. Rayman Raving Rabbids - Rabbids weakness is dancing
08. Sonic Wild Fire - Director says: “The core concept was basically to revolutionize Sonic. We wanted to return to his roots, yet try something entirely new. So I wanted to make sure that he had a new environment to playin in. Since Arabian Nights has 1,001 stories, it allos for a variety of different environments and a variety of things for Sonic to do.”
07. Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers - promised to have a mix of groundbreaking control and RPG tradition.
06. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
05. WarioWare: Smooth Moves - future Warioware concepts may use Wi-Fi connection
04. Resident Evil
03. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
02. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
01. Super Mario Galaxy - plot is to save Princess Peach as usual, you can have two players, one with Wii-mote and the other with Wii-mote + Nunchuku.

Next Issue will have a special feature on Rayman Raving Rabbids, new exclusive revelations and screenshots of Red Steel and discussion with MVP Shaun Alexander about Madden NFL 07.